bjam.exe and doskey not getting along

[Matt <matthewbrown@…>]

I just ran into a really strange bug... Attemptign to install boost to be available to Visual Studio Express 2012, I attempted a the following method of install:

1) Open a Visual Studio command prompt. From the start menu it's: All Programs|Microsoft Visual Studio 11|Native x64 Command Prompt. 2) Unzip boost_1_48_0.zip and set the working directory to boost_1_48_0 3) run bootstrap.bat 4) run bjam.exe

All went well until I ran bjam.exe. I got to the "Building the Boost C++ Libraries" and then doskey crashed repeatedly.

I have doskey being run everytime an instance of cmd.exe, is executed (via a batch script in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor: reg_sz AutoRun). If I remove doskey from the AutoRun script, the crash does not occur.

The would make sense if bjam.exe was calling processes via cmd.exe, which seems like odd practice (I think).

[Steven Watanabe]

The updating commands are interpreted as batch scripts on Windows, which need to be run using cmd.exe. (Other platforms use /bin/sh). I don't think there's any way we can work around this in Boost.Build.